There have been a lot of changes in the e-waste stream over the past fifteen years. There's been a trend from large to small. Desktops & towers transitioned into laptops. Laptops transitioned into tablets & pads. Tablets & pads transitioned into the smaller hand held devices like the i phone.
Every step of the way ... there became less and less material to recycle until most were pushed out of the business.
Another factor that killed the small timers was that shipping costs went way up after the pandemic hit. Many items that were profitable to ship became unprofitable to ship once inflation kicked in.
Over 90% of the materials i see entering the waste stream these days are flat screen monitors, bubble back tv's & flat screen tv's. There's no money in this for your average scrapper. There's no money in this for your average e-waste buyer.
It really needs to be a situation where you are moving through tons of material on a regular basis for it to be profitable.
~ This is just my take on it. ~
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